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Guardian architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright explains seven highlights from his recently published book Inside North Korea to Dezeen. Read more View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed real estate company Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. (more…) View the full article

News: work is nearing completion on an upgraded first floor for the Eiffel Tower that will offer visitors the opportunity to walk over a glass floor or host events and conferences 57 metres above the ground. (more...) View the full article

Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. Read more

The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read more

This red concrete house outside Stuttgart by German firm Finckh Architekten has an oversized middle floor that cantilevers across the driveway (photos by Zooey Braun). (more…) View the full article

A narrow window extends up to the roof of this chapel-like wooden house in southwest London, bringing light into a compact interior that is partly sunken below ground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian company Knectek Labs has automated an often messy and unhygienic part of household waste collection with the Townew bin, which seals and changes its own bags. Read more View the full article

The sculpture gallery designed by American architect Philip Johnson in the grounds of his iconic Glass House in Connecticut has been restored to its former glory. Read more View the full article

Opinion: the limitless prosperity once promised by urbanisation has failed to materialise, leaving rapidly growing inequality in its wake. It will take more than some clever technology to solve the problems with the world's biggest cities, says Reinier de Graaf. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is selling replica Eames chairs for £39.99 – a fraction of the £339 it costs to buy an authorised version of the chair. (more…) View the full article

Veiny slabs of green and grey marble help visually tie together living spaces within this Milan apartment, which has been overhauled by design studio Marcante-Testa. Read more View the full article

Norwegian designer Kim Thome has installed a series of two-way mirrors that reflect vinyl stripes covering the walls of a London gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A century-old house in north London has been overhauled by Richard Parr Architects, to create a home for the founder of cycling brand Rapha and his family. Read more View the full article

Dezeen is hiring! We are recruiting for a number of positions at our award-winning team in London, including a managing editor and a design editor on our editorial team, plus two interns and a sales rep. Read on for more details... Read more View the full article

Dutch studio KAAN Architecten has moved into new offices of its own design in Rotterdam, featuring coarse concrete columns, smooth white walls and rich walnut floorboards. Read more View the full article

Big windows replace the rear wall of a 20th-century house in Rotterdam, which has been overhauled by Shift Architecture Urbanism to create two light-filled apartments. Read more View the full article

We've been reporting from Milan all this week, where highlights included Lasvit's sculptural glass lamps and Studio Job's illustrated wallpaper. Philippe Starck named this year's "only acceptable" trend as "choice" and Marcel Wanders complained about how computer-rendered concepts are making products "look extremely boring". Read on for more news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of Wi-Fi stations in Paris where people can sit down to use their laptops or access local information via a large screen. (more…) View the full article

The developer behind plans for New York's tallest timber-framed building, designed by SHoP Architects, has axed the project. Read more View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes monks levitating over a Mailītis Architects-designed wind tunnel in China and a performance-tracking smart condom. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

The Los Angeles Design Festival is spotlighting architect-designed granny flats with a series of tours this week. Here are look at four of the city's best. Read more

Designed in Hackney: here’s another design classic from the London borough of Hackney – Paul Cocksedge‘s pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. (more…) View the full article

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is leaving his eponymous firm to be spearheaded by new management, following the accusations of sexual harassment made against him earlier this year. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio DoepelStrijkers incorporated a variety of innovative sustainable concepts into this multipurpose space at the offices of a bank in Amsterdam. Read more View the full article